I'm curious; would people say that fixing peering inefficiencies could have a bigger impact on service performance than asking that Netflix, Amazon Prime, Youtube, Hulu, and other video streaming services cut their bit rates down?
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-51968302 https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/03/netflix-and-youtube-cut-streaming-quality-in-europe-to-handle-pandemic/ It seems that perhaps the fingers, and the regulatory hammer, are being pointed in the wrong direction at the moment. ^_^; Matt staying safely under the saran-wrap blanket for the next few weeks On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 9:31 AM Adam Thompson <athomp...@merlin.mb.ca> wrote: > Every large ISP does this (or rather, doesn't) at every IX in Canada. > Bell isn't unique by any stretch. > > It's not in their economic interest to peer at a local IX, because from > their perspective, the IX takes away business (Managed L2 point-to-point > circuits, at the very least) from them. > > Don't expect the dominant wireline ISP(s) in any region to join local IXes > anytime soon, sadly, no matter how much it would benefit their customers. > After all, the customer is always free to purchase service to the IX and > join the IX, right??? *grumble* > > In my local case, if BellMTS joined MBIX, un-cached DNS resolution times > could potentially drop by 15msec. That's HUGE. But the end-user > experience is not their primary goal. Their primary goal is profit, as > always. > > -Adam Thompson > Founding member, MBIX (once upon a time) > > Adam Thompson > Consultant, Infrastructure Services > MERLIN > 100 - 135 Innovation Drive > Winnipeg, MB, R3T 6A8 > (204) 977-6824 or 1-800-430-6404 (MB only) > athomp...@merlin.mb.ca > www.merlin.mb.ca > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: NANOG <nanog-boun...@nanog.org> On Behalf Of Sadiq Saif > > Sent: Friday, March 20, 2020 9:38 AM > > To: nanog@nanog.org > > Subject: Re: COVID-19 vs. peering wars > > > > On Fri, 20 Mar 2020, at 10:31, Steve Mikulasik via NANOG wrote: > > > > > > In Canada the CRTC really needs to get on Canadian ISPs about peering > > > very liberally at IXs in each province. I know of one major > > > institution right now that would have a major work from home issue > > > resolved if one big ISP would peer with one big tier 1 in the IX they > > > are both located at in the same province. Instead traffic needs to > > > flow across the country or to the USA to get back to the same city. > > > > **cough** Bell Canada **cough**. > > > > -- > > Sadiq Saif > > https://sadiqsaif.com/ > >